On June 19, 2019 I had the privilege to spend a couple of hours with a group of really great kids from Morning Star School. We began by talking about flying and airplanes and also about what is involved in pursuing flying as a career.
I did a short presentation about flight and aircraft. I also told a real “With God as My Co-Pilot” story about an emergency landing I was forced to make during a late night – early morning cross country fight. There were lots of good questions and following the talk I did a demonstration on the Saitek flight simulator using X-Plane 11. Afterwards all of the kids had the chance to see if they could taxi, take-off, and land an airplane. While I thought everyone did really great for a first try, two of them did excellent and actually landed without crashing. Taxiing using their feet was perhaps the most difficult for most kids. Yes it really is harder than it looks, especially if you don’t have prior experience. Even Lynnette Cyr, their teacher gave it a try and she did very good – but I will not say if she was one of the novice pilots who crash landed or who landed successfully.
Here are a couple of the photos we took.
